The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-12-22


lzeuest New York sAsomakse WINS snd
nisht Childrsn In the Dspths q Psvsrty--
Os4sr Instaness Of NE Same Charassss.
tcspyriVAssd. isS'.l
The bleak days of the year are on %. The
cold nights, the sweeping winds, the chilly
sensations suggesting overcoa4s and wraps
the windows filing up with presents for the
holidays, fat turkeys In the market, venison
on the hook, all the wiitry reminders Of ma
ture's power and society's swim, make them
selves felt and call before US visions Of the
bright and the dark of other years. Al .
member of society am puszled.
Yesterday an honest shoemaker awoke
from his uneasy sleep and found his wife
sitting on the floor, wretched and helpless.
By her side were seven dirty little children,
and At her breast an eighth. The cold air
whistled through the barren room. There
was no fire, no box-stove, no wood, no coal,
no matches. There was no bread, no butter,
no meat, no milk. There was no clothing,
except the thin raiment they severally wore.
There was no chair, no table. Everything
was gone, little by little, to the pawnshop.
and now, with nothing to sell, nothing to
pledeA thesel lMretched parsnts, looked upon
the afasbed end chilled faeesS thsf hungry
little ones, and knew not where TO go.
It would be folly to attempt to picture that
scene. Desolation, absolute and supreme
smotkered them all.
Well, this father, hungry and wan him
self, was frenxied when he saw the pitiable,
pleading look of his wife, and heard the cry
s~,v &c k;o kak ~ hn hod
vainly sought for work.
His tools were gone-up the spout.
His friends were gone-where all friendsgo.
His money was gone-down with the bank.
Desperately he rushed into the cold and
biting wind. He begged aid from a passer,
and was repulsed. The policeman told him
to ''getson." He went to the grocer's for
bread, and was laughed at. He tried the
station-house, and was ordered out. He
passed dry goods store, and, hoping against
hope, turned back and asked for work. "Get
out was all he got.
For all society cared he might have died
on the street.
He passed another store. At the sides of
the door were draped three pieces of silk.
Quick as flash he grabbed them and ran
ran with all his might down the street-and
then society knew him.
stop thlei'' cried the shopmsn.
kap! rap! went the peelers ciuo.
ana IN less time than It taxes 70 tell H. 30
ciety was on the alert and the man was IN
Its eye.
soon ne was IN It's grasp ana Dariy po
hceman Knockeo MN DOWN WIN ms cauo
took The piece OF SILK and the man witA u 10
the statlon-house.
Whats your manner
John Christ
Where 90 you hver
On Eigntn avenue.
"MarriedT
Yes.
"Children"
Eight, SIR" and here the poor fellow
broke down. The thought OF mis- sunering
wife, the memory OF the eight starving little
ones fovercame him, and, forgetting his
cracked head, his weary limbs. his own
parched throat and famished stomach he
yie!dedt 70 tne not ana sca!ding Years ana
said daacOh, nr. Tor God's sake, 90 wnat you
VIII! WIN me- out send at least some bread
to them /.
The sergeant coughed, bit the handle OF
his pen, blew his nose, cleared his throat
and sent him to his cell.
Ihere ne stayed until the next Gay.
But his wiie-weli, she waited for John 70
come home, but ne didn't
And the baby-well, she held habby nip
pie In her mouth and sucked and sucked for
the milk which no longer came.
ana the chiidren.weli' tney crieo an day'
sometimes because they were coid' nut pr1n-
ciPaiiy because they were hungry.
Perhaps you think this was IN Lancashire
EngiandY On no; 1t was right herein new
York-and Is yet.
The mans name was Christ.
You may nave heard It before. 10 the
same ~ the saviour's. That's one reason
remember It: He lived on Eighth avenue.
ana, Nith mis- snnering wife ana Starving
children, was taken before judge Ford, OF
Jenerson Market, . kind-nearted magistrate,
who sees this sort OF thing every Gay Of MS
life.
yudge FORD looked as Cnrss, ana oes no
pitied him, but what could he do? Christ
had gone for the silk, 20 society must 60 for
him. Ford SAINT the case before the Special
Sessions, where full board dispenses law to
rich and poor, and don't care button for